History+of+the+Web

Highlight some of the key points in the history of the world wide web. When did it start or how? When was email first introduced? When did it expand into education? Melissa and Cliff Goodacre

Although many people think the Internet and World Wide Wevb are the same, the Internet consists of a worldwide collection of computers and sub-networks exchanging data using wires, cables, and radio links. On the other hand, the World Wide Web is a huge set of documents, images, and other 'resources' linked by an abstract 'web' of hypertext links and URLs. media type="youtube" key="1IQFjTnDozo" height="344" width="425"
 * The Internet v. The World Wide Web . . . **
 * The Invention of the World Wide Web **

** Evolution of the World Wide Web 1958** U.S. Department of Defense launches ARPA which led to the development of the Internet in the 1960's


 * 1980** The big idea of the World Wide Web was written by Tim Berners-Lee


 * 1984** Apple launched the first personal computer


 * 1989** Berners-Lee made a proposal to share information through the World Wide Web using hypertext


 * 1990** The World Wide Web was named and developed as the first ever web site and web server

"Surfing the Internet" is coined
 * 1992** There were 26 publicly accessible sites available on the World Wide Web

The first web site was developed [|http://info.cern.ch] Mosaic browser brought graphics and text together on the Web (turning point for World Wide Web)
 * 1993** CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) announced WWW as a free server for anyone


 * 1994** The world's first search engines were launched, Web Crawler and Lycos

Approximately three quarters of a million commercial sites are on the World Wide Web
 * 1998** Google.com is launched

Jumping ahead to **2009**. . . there are now 1.5 billion Internet users and over 100 billion live web pages on the World Wide Web.




 * History of Email **
 * Early email could only be used to send messages to various users of the same computer
 * Ray Tomlinson is credited with inventing email in 1972 to adapt to the change in computers being able to 'talk' over networks
 * By 1974 there were hundreds of military users of email
 * With the inception of the World Wide Web, email started to be made available with friendly web interfaces by providers such as Yahoo and Hotmail
 * Since email has become free, there are over 600 million email users internationally.
 * The World Wide Web pushes into education . . . very SLOWLY! **
 * In 1999 there were less than 3% of schools with useful access to the World Wide Web (U.S. Dept. of Educaiton) 
 * Many schools have been fortunate to form partnerships with universities and local businesses in order to gain access to the WWW
 * Others have applied for grants to gain access
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">Many schools cannot afford the needed hardware to support a connection to the World Wide Web
 * <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">The popularity of the Web continues to grow with students and they are beginning to make a larger push than ever into the classroom for the use of the World Wide Web as an educational tool